Day in photos: Jan. 21, 2013

Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea leaps through the air during the funk-rockers’ perfomance at the Big Day Out festival in Gold Coast, Australia.

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Decked out Burkina Faso fans cheer their side on against Nigeria at the African Cup of Nations in Nelspruit, South Africa.

Reuters

Afghans inspect what’s left of a traffic police headquarters in Kabul that was raided by the Taliban. The raid left three cops and at least five insurgents dead.

AP

German Chancellor Angela Merkel pauses with a frown as she speaks to the press after her party’s weekly executive meeting in Berlin. Merkel is preparing her run for a third term, but her Christian Democratic Union suffered losses in local elections.

AP

A train chugs through snowy fields near Manchester, England.

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South Korean soldiers huddle in position during drills in Seoul held to mark the anniversary of the Blue House Raid, an unsuccessful attempt by the North to assassinate then-President Park Chung-hee in 1968.

AP

Chinese workers walk through the financial district of Pudong on a hazy day in Shanghai, as Beijing is set to unveil new rules governing how China’s capital reacts to air pollution, according to state reports.

Reuters

Protesters taunt police with a banner depicting former Ukranian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko near the presidential administration building in Kiev. Already jailed for abusing her office, Tymoshenki now faces accusations she ordered a business rival killed 16 years ago.

Reuters

A woman watches as her six-year-old daughter fires off a small rifle along a mountain range in Buckeye, Arizona.

Reuters

Dutch Royal Navy crew members of the vessel Hr. Ms. De Ruyter bid farewell to loved ones at Den Helder harbor before shipping out to Somalia to join NATO’s anti-piracy Ocean Shield operation.

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A family flees the Newell’s Old Boys club in Rosario, Argentina, where soccer fans hurled rocks at the opposing Rosario Central squad’s bus and clashed with police, forcing the match to be suspended.

AP

Official Super Bowl game balls go through the shaping and filling process at the Wilson Sporting Goods plant in Ada, Ohio, in preparation for the Feb. 3 clash between Baltimore and San Francisco.